With that truncheon thou hast slain a good knight, and now it sticketh in thy body.

The month of May was come, when every lusty heart beginneth to blossom, and to bring forth fruit; for like as herbs and trees bring forth fruit and flourish in May, in likewise every lusty heart that is in any manner a lover, springeth and flourisheth in lusty deeds. For it giveth unto all lovers courage, that lusty month of May.

Queen Guenever, for whom I make here a little mention, that while she lived she was a true lover, and therefore she had a good end.

The sweetness of love is short-lived, but the pain endures.

Then he looked by him, and was ware of a damsel that came riding as fast as her horse might gallop upon a fair palfrey. And when she espied that Sir Lanceor was slain, then she made sorrow out of measure, and said, O Balin ! two bodies hast thou slain and one heart, and two hearts in one body, and two souls thou hast lost.

We shall now seek that which we shall not find

With that truncheon thou hast slain a good knight, and now it sticketh in thy body.